Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, arunkhan@xnet.com produced:
At 11:19 AM 07/16/98 -0700, Alan Riggins wrote:
On many UNIX systems, you can enable filec, which fills in the remainder of a filename when you hit the escape key. This doesn't work with the default shell in SuSE. I know that I can use the "*" when enough characters have been entered that the file name is unambiguous, but this is more tedious.
This is because the bash shell is not a csh or a tcsh but a bourne shell, so the invocation (and many other things) are different/better:-) ... man bash (searching for "completion" reveals) FIGNORE HOSTFILE completion-query-items disable-completion expand-tilde show-all-if-ambiguous visible-stats complete (TAB) <---- possible-completions insert-completions complete-filename possible-filename-completions complete-username possible-username-completions complete-variable possible-variable-completions complete-hostname possible-hostname-completions complete-command possible-command-completions dynamic-complete-history complete-into-braces -m hostcomplete
In 'bash' vi mode (i.e. set -o vi), after entering the first few chars. of
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